Whispering Jesse Sailing Blog by John Lichty
Blog URL http://whisperingjesse.blogspot.com
Located Grand Junction, Colorado USA
Tags sailing blogs, sailing blog, sailing, sailboat, sailboats, circumnavigation, cruising, travel
Whispering Jesse is a blog about the pursuit of a dream, to sail around the world. Until that adventure actually begins, it will be about the sailing trips, travels, thoughts and experiences of its creator, John Lichty.
Latest Blog Posts
- Raising Charlie book signing at Borders on Nov 16, 2009 in Scout Life golden retriever Charlie
Yesterday afternoon I had my first book signing for Raising Charlie at our local Borders bookstore. It was a surprising success. The ads I had been running in the local paper must have worked because there were people waiting for me before my schedul...
- Linking to files without read-only restrictions on Nov 14, 2009 in Programming HTML
Here's another interesting programming trick I discovered at work recently that I was unable to find a solution to anywhere on the Internet:Everyone knows that what makes the Internet the Internet is that everything is interconnected through links. T...
- Pinback in Denver on Nov 9, 2009 in Life Denver concert
Nan and I were in Denver for the Pinback concert at the Ogden Theatre on Friday night. If you're not familiar, Pinback is a San Diego based band fronted by Rob Crow and Zach Smith. Their music is unlike anything else I've heard, a catchy multi-layere...
- Happy Halloween? on Nov 3, 2009 in Life Grand Junction
With Halloween falling on a Saturday this year and both of us being in town, Nan and I decided to see what Grand Junction had to offer adult revelers.After volunteering all day with my neighbors to build some badly needed retaining walls between two...
- Scout gets his sea legs on Oct 27, 2009 in travel Scout Juan Gomez Chan Isla Mujeres Mexico
On one of our last afternoons on Isla Mujeres, Mexico, we did a boat trip with our friend Ariel and his wife Rosa. I had done one with them and their son Edric earlier in our stay, but this time I was taking Nan, our friend Juan's son Manolo, and our...
- ColdFusion Cascading Dropdown Menus on Oct 16, 2009 in ColdFusion
So far in this blog, I have not shared much about what I do for a living, which is to develop Web-based applications for a small hospital. I don't think posts about my work would be very interesting to most readers, but today I experienced a small pr...
- Home from Isla Mujeres on Oct 14, 2009 in Scout Isla Mujeres Cancun Denver
Nan, Scout and I arrived home safely from Isla Mujeres over the weekend. On Saturday, we flew from Cancun, where it was in the high 90s with almost 100% humidity, to Denver, where it was in the mid-20s and dry--more than a 70-degree temperature diffe...
